Abalone Council Australia Ltd (ACA) is the peak industry body representing the wild-harvest abalone Industry from the five producing states of Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales. Collectively these state-managed fisheries will provide approximately 50% of the total global supply of wild caught abalone.

One of the primary functions of ACA is to oversee and manage national Research and Development investment in abalone related research.

ACA has partnered with the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) to ensure that investment in abalone related R&D supports and underpins the developmental needs of the Australian Wild Harvest Abalone industry.  ACA provided the services and organisaitonal structure to support and deliver FRDC project 2012-404: Wild Harvest Abalone National RD&E Planning, Management and Oversight.  This Project 2012-404 was the management project for the inaugural ACA IPA.  The Final Report for this project is available for download here.